Plymouth State Course Proposal
Syllabus


Term: General Session 2006-2007 (200780)
Course Number:
Credits: 3 credits
Tuition:
$571 for 3 credit course or $182 per credit plus $25 registration fee
Instructor of Record: Alan Knobloch, Jeff Utecht

Title: Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom

Course Objectives:
Participants will:
  • Give concrete examples of how teachers use these tools in their classes.
  • Understand how teachers plan to use these tools in the delivery of their curricular objectives.
  • Explain how technologies such as Weblogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds and others can deepen learning and increase student achievement
  • Identify assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of Read/Write Web technologies in their personal practice and with their students.
  • Create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school community
  • Incorporate, effectively, the tools into your personal or professional practice
  • Develop a supportive, reflective virtual professional community around school-based goals
  • Overcome obstacles preventing the integration of technology such as lack of access to tools/computers, filtering, and parental/district concerns for online safety.


Assignments/Products
Participants will:
View and/or listen to a minimum of 16 sessions of the K12 Online Conference (http://www.k12onlineconference.org) including the main keynote and each of the keynotes from the four strands.
  • Post a minimum of one comment, reflection, or response to course discussion board for each session viewed.
  • Read all entries to conference blog, wikis, and transcripts of chat sessions.
  • Develop and implement plan to use one of the web 2.0 tools in their classroom or professional practice. Publish final product of implementation plan in local setting.
  • Post project idea and respond to other participants projects.
  • Complete one to two page paper reflecting on implementation plan answering the following questions.
· What was your project?
· What learning (student or adult) objective(s) was web 2.0 project designed to meet?
· How effective was the project?
· What went well?
· What did you do to contribute to that part going well?
· What part of the project did not go as well as you would have liked?
· What could you do next time to improve the project?


Contact Time
Participants will:
  • View and/or listen to a minimum of 16 sessions, each session will be approximately one hour, of the K12 Online Conference including the main keynote and each of the keynotes from the four strands.
  • Active participation in on-line discussions of conference sessions and course projects in an on-going expectation.